If wind turbine blades are so long and heavy, how is the wind able to rotate them?

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If wind turbine blades are so long and heavy, how is the wind able to rotate them?

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They are heavy, sure, but they are very well balanced which means it takes very little force to rotate them. And those long blades give a lot of surface area for the wind to act on. So, it doesn’t take much air movement to get some rotation started.

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